Improvement in vehicle-wheel hubs



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

OHAUNOEY H. GUARD, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL N. BROWN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHICLE-WHEEL HUBS. v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,504, dated April 22, 1879; application filed September 25, 1878.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, GHAUNGEY H. GUARD, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Wheel Hubs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to all classes of vehicle-wheel hubs; and my improvement consists in the application ot' a stay-piece, preferably of metal, for `holdin g the spoke-tenons,and for preventing both their splitting and the removal of the spoke, as will be hereinafter set forth.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I would thus proceed to describe it, referring herein to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a central longitudinal section of a hub provided wit-h my improved stay-piece. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the hub, showing the mortise and the staypiece. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the staypiece.

I provide a cylindrical piece, A, preferably of metal, and of the shape represented, havin g its exterior surface near the bottom threaded. The interior of the piece is mortised on one side, the mortise being of the same width as that in the hub, leaving an upwardlyextending side portion, a.

The diameter of the stay is somewhat greater than the width of the mortise in the hub.

In a light stagger-wheel, only one of these stays is applied to each spoke on the outer edges of the tenons, in the following manner: With a brace or other instrument, a holel is bored at the outer edge of each mortise, and

into it is screwed the staypiece A until its mortise corresponds 'with that of the hub, the portion a being left projecting above the surface of the hub, as seen in Fig. 1. The tenon is then driven in in the usual manner, and is secured from being withdrawn by a screw or bolt through the ear a.

The advantage of this arrangement is that the spoke is firmly and securely locked to the hub, and the tenon, held by the piece A, is prevented from splitting the hub, or from being itself split. In addition to this the raised portion a forms a brace to the spoke, and holds it from lateral deiection.

` In some cases it is not necessary to have the preferably of metal, mortised to embrace a portion of the spoke-tenon, and applied to the hub in the manner and for the purpose speciiied.

2. In a vehicle-wheel hub, a stay-piece, A, preferably of metal, embracing a portion of the tenon, and having a projecting portion, a, for bracing the spoke, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Witness my hand this 31st day of August,

OHAUNGEY H. GUARD. IVitnesses:

WM. RITGHIE, EDWARD L. ROWE. 

